Grouse guns

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Frank Cronin

I'm sure it takes a lot of practice.

I witnessed this only once. New Years Shoot in NH years ago. Austin Hogan did this with his hammer gun. Skeet station eight. Called for a double, low house first and overhead from high house. Hammer gun uncocked, mounted low gun. Called pull, cocked both hammers and he smashed them both.

I’ll have to check the mainspring tension on the locks of the gun he was shooting that day. As I recall it was the 2-frame Grade 0 twelve gauge with the Vulcan Steel barrels.
Austin left that gun to the PGCA and dubbed it the “Editors Gun” and I will pass it along to the next editor of Parker Pages. It is a really nice shooting gun.

I have never been able to cock my hammers on the rise of a flushing bird or clay in time to get off a decent shot... hence my reasoning in having both hammers cocked and the action open while hunting. I think it’s a bit unsafe to be quickly trying to cock hammers against stubborn mainsprings.... What happens when you mess up ? And all that unnecessary cocking and releasing the hammers again and again on barrels remaining unfired is, in my mind, just asking for a slip up.





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[Hixie]

It's an easier decision for me. I have two GHs, a 12 and a 20 both with 26" barrels, and each will get time afield. I'll bring along my old Browning lightning 20 ga which I just can't make myself leave home. The Parkers that I think about at night are the ones I don't have...yet. What keeps me awake is the scheming on how to get them.

[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

If the terrain permits, I prefer hammers cocked with the action open. Fast shots seem easier that way.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Austin J Hawthorne Jr.

If the terrain permits, I prefer hammers cocked with the action open. Fast shots seem easier that way.

This is the way I hunt a hammer gun too. It’s by far the safest way to hunt with a hammer gun.





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[Brett Hoop]

C.O.B.

I have attended a series of your lectures on Acquisition & Justification of Double guns. I know you could easily work it out

Because the Chairman keeps plenty of birds for the Boys, and finding they prefer you to kill one with regularity I can see a hammer gun getting some practice. As for a hammer 28ga, and the fact that I am not allergic to upgrades that’s a phone call to another Uncle, a bit of pleading and hand wringing, but has been done before.

Why must you put these thoughts in my head

[Dean Romig]

Austin Hogan that New Years Day at Major Waldron's in New Hampshire with his hammer gun.

Well, that didn't work...
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[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Austin Hogan that New Years Day at Major Waldron's in New Hampshire with his hammer gun.

Well, that didn't work...
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Okay, I found a better picture of Austin that day...


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[Ron Scott]

Probably a really dumb question but those of you who carry gun closed and hammers down, how do you cock both barrels at the same time? You must have a really long thumb -- or do you somehow reach back with the other hand, kind of like they do with a six gun on a fast draw in spaghetti westerns?

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Ronald Scott

Probably a really dumb question but those of you who carry gun closed and hammers down, how do you cock both barrels at the same time? You must have a really long thumb -- or do you somehow reach back with the other hand, kind of like they do with a six gun on a fast draw in spaghetti westerns?

i carry it with my thumb across the top of the action, web of the hand against the frame, barrels up - i can pull both hammers back as I rotate the gun into position

[terc]

When I hunt with a hammer gun I cheat. It has a safety.